Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity

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About the Team

The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably. The team owns the enterprise identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, and identity capabilities across the enterprise admin experience and OpenAI's growing multi-product portfolio.

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of OpenAI's Enterprise Identity systems. You will set the long-term technical vision for the entire stack, establish shared identity primitives across products, and be accountable for systems that are foundational to our enterprise business.

This role requires operating well beyond a single service or feature area. You will identify the most consequential architectural investments, align teams around durable solutions, and ensure our identity platform meets an exceptionally high bar for scale, availability, latency, and security.

This role will be based in the San Francisco or Mountain View office.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for the Enterprise Identity stack, including SSO, SCIM, tenant architecture, groups, permissions, and identity capabilities in enterprise administration surfaces.
• Lead the design and evolution of highly available, latency-sensitive identity systems serving a large and diverse global enterprise customer base.
• Establish common identity models and primitives that work consistently across OpenAI's products and enable the organization to scale.
• Set a high security bar by anticipating abuse cases, failure modes, and the long-term implications of new capabilities.
• Drive alignment across enterprise product, infrastructure, and security partners, resolving ambiguity and influencing roadmaps beyond the immediate team.
• Provide technical leadership to senior engineers and raise the quality of architecture and execution across the broader organization.

Requirements

• Experience owning the architecture of a broad, business-critical platform or large-scale distributed-systems domain at the senior-staff level.
• Experience setting multi-year technical direction and successfully aligning multiple teams around complex architectural decisions.
• Understanding of enterprise identity, enterprise architecture, and the operational needs of large customers in multi-product environments.
• Experience with SSO, SCIM, identity providers, tenant models, permissions, groups, or adjacent identity infrastructure.
• A security-minded, adversarial approach to systems design, including consideration of how capabilities could fail or be abused.
• Ability to move between deep technical judgment, organizational influence, and hands-on leadership where it matters most.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI pushes the boundaries of AI system capabilities and seeks to safely deploy them through its products.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law. OpenAI is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, medical leave, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off and paid company holidays.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits may also be provided.

Base pay may vary depending on market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Total compensation also includes equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and benefits.